Graham Linehan arrested on arrival at Heathrow

[IDareSay]

Arrested again! Details on his Substack. This is beyond a joke; 5 armed officers!

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got-arrested-again

She was called nettles and brambles and was ruminating on which weapon she'd use as self defense against a presumably trans attacker. Or some such thing.

Our new visitors
Are deeply patronising
And just lack humour.

The ilkshake brings all
The TRA's to the yard.
Here come all the boys.

Tautological.
That's a fun new one for us!
A new bingo card?

He can join my 78 year old dad in the cells.

He can bunk up with my 75 year old father, who very early on showed me the best way to hold a bunch of keys in my hand for maximum damage and minimum injury to myself.

I'm unsurprised MP Rupert Lowe supports graham. RL is a far-right clown who mostly posts racism and supports racists. I wouldn't expect him to support LGBT rights.

Other supporters of graham include "benonwine", the man who got fired for bringing Waitrose into disrepute by posting racism on the same Twitter account as Waitrose related stuff (including photos of him in uniform at work). Just had a quick look at his Twitter and was disgusted by him posting AI images of children to push his political agenda.

btw Aren't there supposed to be laws in Britain against making AI images of children and platforms publishing it without active moderation to remove it? Some people on Twitter over the past week were also sharing AI generated images of the 12 year old child in Dundee. Doesn't the new Online Safety Bill cover this?

Sounds like something a Scottish country dancing caller would say to me...

When I was heading home after a night out, I had a concerned male taxi driver chat to me about self defence techniques which was kind of sweet really.

He told me that smashing the edge of your phone or similar against the bridge of an attackers nose is also a useful move if you get a chance

Well...there's that.too

They'll have a hard job arresting my dad, he was cremated nearly 20 years ago 😂

Has there ever been an incident in the UK of a woman physically assaulting a transwoman in a women’s loo or other single sex space?

There's a huge part of me wanting to believe that someone in the police decided this particular type of arrest (whilst clearly bloody awful for @Glinner ) would have exactly the effect that it's having right now across the media. Peak sunlight.

A mole in the Met? Now there's a thought...

Why do I get the feeling ‘Christina’ is now typing with one hand?

No, but there has been the other way round!

Well of course you're not surprised, because to you, transgenderism is such a sacred caste that sending five armed officers to arrest a guy for three joke tweets that clearly aren't an incitement to anything except perhaps physically defending yourself when a law breaking man won't leave isn't actually a sign of insane institutional capture by an ideology based on utter delusion. The point, though, is that it is, so much so that even Rupert sodding Lowe can see it. Congratulations, your team made him right today. You must be so bloody proud.

I wasn't sure for a while whether Chris was a man or a woman, but earlier I saw a post that tried to belittle JKR by calling her Jo. Now we know.

While this is all clearly bloody awful for Glinner, it's created an absolute avalanche of headlines, all critical of the police and in some cases the Government.

It really is time the police started actually engaging their collective brains. Trust in the police is at an all time low, and its just getting lower

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/father-ted-co-creator-graham-141003577.html

"armed officers"

This has been addressed already. He was arrested at an airport, airport police carry guns, especially at one of the biggest International airports in the world.

“The arrest was made by officers from the MPS Aviation Unit,” a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said in a statement to media. “It is routine for officers policing airports to carry firearms. These were not drawn or used at any point during the arrest.”

"three joke tweets"

LGBT people and their supporters however may not find violent threats and hateful degrading comments made about them funny. Did anyone from here find the "punch a TERF in the face" threat made a while back funny? No? Violent threats aren't funny and it is correct for the police to be investigating them.

"even Rupert sodding Lowe can see it."

RL is already a well established member of the far-right extremists and you are welcome to keep him.

Not bad, but I dont think Simon Armitage needs to look for another job just yet.

Probably got five coppers with pikestaffs taking her to the Tower by barge as we speak.

Yes it’s exposing the Orwellian lunacy well.

I’d put this more on the gov than police, the laws are nonsense.

"It really is time the police started actually engaging their collective brains."

By assuming brains, collective or otherwise, I fear you are expecting a little too much of our gallant police force!

To be honest, the same applies to many cases where like-minded individuals band together; tribalistic imbecility is rampant in in our modern era.

I'm loving the idea of cells full of excellent aged dads all chuntering away about how silly this all is.

Even Owen Jones now saying the arrest is wrong.

That's because the far-right have the media control. Notice it's the exact same anyone is arrested for racist threats too? I was disgusted by all the support and money that was raised for the woman who threatened arson attacks on hotels housing immigrants just for one example. "benonwine" also got an outpour of support from the media and a fortune from a crowdfund after being fired for posting about his job on the same account he was being racist on.

Logical fallacy- assuming whoever talks the loudest must be "correct".